Potentially stupid market structure question of the day: are 100% of Coinbase crypto trades executed on-chain? Is it possible for trades to happen off-chain?
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Replying to @HideNotSlide
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@jgreco said. No exchange does on-chain trades, it would be too slow and too expensive. Wallet transfers between exchanges are on chain, clob trades and transfers between wallets in the same exchange are db updates.3 replies 0 retweets 26 likes -
In general you don’t even have your own wallet at the exchange, you just have a db entry that says what the exchange owes you. The exchange has a private wallet (in fact several) to hold client crypto assets, and they generate unique public keys for users to deposit to it.
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interesting. so there’s lots of risk in each exchanges DB uptime? perhaps we should clear these trades centrally
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Fortunately Bitcoin solves this
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I'm obviously being glib but there are some interesting custodial solutions emerging, e.g. the custodian 'pledging' your assets to the exchange rather than transferring them, and settling it daily into a wallet that the exchange also maintains at the custodian.
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Also has the benefit of free and near-instantaneous transfers between exchanges (because it's a db update at the custodian, not an on-chain transaction) which is a benefit in fast markets. Biggest downside is that not many exchanges are signed up yet.
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Replying to @macrocephalopod @theemilyaccount and
Very interesting. Thank you!
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